Tenerife County Court, 23 years in prison for a man named Eliseo, found guilty by the people’s court murder who was his previous wife’s partner. The jury also concluded that death occurred after death. planned, treacherous and brutalwithout appreciating any reduction.
While the prosecutor’s office requested 23 years in prison, the special prosecutor’s office representing the wife and relatives of the victim demanded 25 years in prison.
The events took place in March 2020 at a place in the town of San Isidro, in the Granadilla de Abona municipality of Tenerife, at noon. He made an appointment using a fake name and car on the pretext of buying a musical instrument.
The defendant’s lawyer announced that he would appeal to the criminal chamber of the Canary Islands Supreme Court of Justice (TSJC), arguing that his client was acting in self-defense. When the sentence is finalized, the moment will come when the compensation amount will be determined for the two daughters and partner of the deceased businessman.
Prosecutor’s Office and special prosecutor’s office, 150,000 euros for the first two, 100,000 euros for the woman. It is now up to the Canary Islands High Court of Justice to determine whether the story presented by the accused, who says he went to the offices to collect his debt and then blamed himself for burning down his old house, is true. his wife’s car, which happened days ago.
The now convicted stated:and at that moment he saw how the victim made a move to remove the knife from his back, so they struggled.The gun fell to the ground, picked it up and attacked the businessman from there.
The victim received 20 stab wounds, many of them fatal. and some special persecution, similar to that observed in the skull, which is like the removal of the peel of a fruit.
The jury found the victim had no chance to defend himself, so the attack took him by surprise. Evidence of this is the first knife identified by forensics, who reported that the victim died in great agony as a result of the persecution, appearing to be stuck in his back. In the report of the prosecutor’s office and the special prosecutor’s office, which represents the family of the deceased, it was alleged that Eliseo had used a person the day before to make an appointment with another name because he was planning his death.
However, that intermediary informed the businessman and said that he had agreed to do this favor because Eliseo assured him that he had avoided taking the deceased because he did not want to pay the debt to him. He found the agent unconvincing and therefore warned the victim of the danger he was in.
doubts
From the very beginning, suspicions were directed against the accused, who was arrested a few days later and confessed to his own account of what had happened and said he had left the murder weapon in a garbage container more than 30 centimeters tall. After his confession, the Civil Guard had to search 20 tons of garbage to find the murder weapon.
At first, the defendant argued that he had repaired a truck with his boss that day as an alibi, but was not found exactly between 2:45 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. as the boss had said, further confirming the inspector’s suspicions.
Despite accepting the authorship, he has always maintained that it was self-defense, that he had rebuilt his life with another partner, and that he did not harbor any jealousy or resentment towards his ex-wife.
She said she tried to reconcile with him and accused him of being “too aggressive”, enough to admit that she was psychologically abused and constantly fighting in the last years of their marriage. He also suspected that the fire in his car ten days before the crime was his own.